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Auction Description for Swann: OLD MASTER THROUGH MODERN PRINTS

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Exhibition & Sale Schedule: Sale 2328 - Old Master Through Modern Prints - begins at 10:30am in New York on Wed, October 30. All material in Sale 2328 on display at our premises in New York City, 104 East 25th Street, as follows: Thurs, Oct 24: 10am to 6pm - Fri, Oct 25: 10am to 6pm - Sat, Oct 26: Noon to 5pm - Mon, Oct 28: 10am to 6pm - Tues, Oct 29: 10am to 6pm - No exhibition on day of sale.

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MARTIN SCHONGAUER The Coronation of the Virgin. Engraving, circa 1490. 160x155 mm; 6 1/4x6 1/8 inches. Ex-collection Giuseppe Storck, Milan (Lugt 2318, verso). Trimmed on or just inside the plate mark. A very good impression of this extremely scarce, early engraving. We locate 4 impressions in North American public collections and have found only 4 impressions at auction in the past 25 years. Bartsch 72.

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MARTIN SCHONGAUER Christ before Pilate. Engraving, circa 1480. 162x116 mm; 6 3/8x4 5/8 inches. Gothic letter P watermark (similar to Briquet 8597, which dates to circa 1465). Trimmed on or just inside the plate mark, with part of the original black border line preserved on all four edges. A very good, well-inked and dark impression of this scarce engraving. Bartsch 14; Lehrs 24.

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ALBRECHT DÜRER The Holy Family with the Butterfly. Engraving, circa 1495. 236x187 mm; 9 1/4x7 3/8 inches. A superb, richly-inked Meder a-b impression with very strong contrasts, with all the fine lines distinct, with little to no sign of wear, with the delicate vertical wiping marks in the sky and the drypoint on the monogram showing and with the Virgin's face distinct. With thread margins or trimmed on the plate mark. Bartsch 44; Meder 42.

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ALBRECHT DÜRER Five Soldiers and a Turk on Horseback. Engraving, circa 1495-96. 131x148 mm; 5 1/8x5 7/8 inches. A superb, richly-inked and dark Meder a impression with very strong contrasts. Trimmed on the plate mark with the narrow black border line preserved on all four edges. Bartsch 88; Meder 81.

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ALBRECHT DÜRER The Promenade. Engraving, circa 1496-97. 195x123 mm; 7 5/8x4 5/8 inches. A very good, dark and richly-inked Meder c impression, with the woman's neck and headdress distinct and with the delicate scratch from the man's chin onto his chest. With thread margins or trimmed on the plate mark, restored loss upper part of sheet, in the blank space above the figures' heads and the tree with additions in pen and ink. A superb, well-inked and evenly-printed impression with very strong contrasts. Bartsch 94; Meder 83.

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ALBRECHT DÜRER Virgin and Child with the Monkey. Engraving, circa 1498. 189x120 mm; 7 1/2x4 3/4 inches, narrow margins. A very good, evenly-printed Meder c impression, with the vertical scratch in the monogram but before the scratch on the child's arm and with all the fine lines in the clouds distinct. Bartsch 42; Meder 30.

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ALBRECHT DÜRER The Birth of the Virgin. Woodcut, circa 1503. 298x212 mm; 11 3/4x8 3/8 inches. A brilliant, richly-inked and dark proof impression before the 1511 Latin text edition, with very strong contrasts and no sign of wear. Bull's head watermark (Meder 20a, which he dates from the late 1490s/early 1500s). Trimmed on the outside of the border line with the border line preserved on all four edges. Bartsch 80; Meder 192.

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ALBRECHT DÜRER Melencolia I. Engraving, 1514. 240x187 mm; 9 1/2x7 3/8 inches. A very good, evenly-printed, dark Meder II c impression, with the number "9" corrected in the third row of the number square upper right, with strong contrasts and little to no sign of wear, with the face dark and all the details distinct, with the scratch on the white portion on the thigh but before the scratch across the tip of the comet. Trimmed on the plate mark with thread margins outside the narrow black border line. Bartsch 74; Meder 75.

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ALBRECHT DÜRER St. Bartholomew. Engraving, 1523. 123x77 mm; 4 7/8x3 1/8 inches. A very good Meder c-d impression, with the fine wiping scratches visible in the right background and with contrast. Ex-collection Colnaghi, London, with their stock number in pencil, verso. Trimmed on the plate mark. Bartsch 47; Meder 45.

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ALBRECHT DÜRER Virgin and Child Seated by the Wall. Engraving, 1514. 149x100 mm; 5 7/8x4 inches. First state (of 2). A superb, dark and evenly-printed Meder I b impression with strong contrasts and no sign of wear, with all the fine lines in the wall distinct. With thread margins or trimmed on the plate mark. Bartsch 40; Meder 36.

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ALBRECHT DÜRER The Virgin and Child Crowned by Two Angels. Engraving, 1518. 148x100 mm; 5 7/8x4 inches. A very good, dark and well-inked Meder a-b impression with the contours of the mountains upper left distinct and before the wiping scratches, with strong contrasts. With thread margins or trimmed on the plate mark. Bartsch 39; Meder 38.

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ALBRECHT DÜRER Group of 5 woodcuts from Vier Bücher der Menschlichen Proportion. Group of 5 woodcuts on 3 sheets (2 double-sided), 1528. One sheet with a small high crown watermark (Meder 31, which he dates to the 1534 Latin text edition of this treatise). Very good impressions. Meder XXIX.

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HANS BALDUNG GRIEN Group of Six Wild Horses. Woodcut, 1534. 225x331 mm; 8 7/8x13 inches, small margins. A very good impression of this extremely scarce woodcut. We have found only one other impression at auction in the past 25 years. Bartsch 58; Hollstein 240; Mende 79.

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MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI Allegory of a Young Man with a Torch. Engraving, circa 1515. 276x375 mm; 10 7/8x14 3/4 inches. With thread margins or trimmed on the plate mark. A good impression of this extremely scarce, early engraving. We have found only one other impression at auction in the past 25 years. Bartsch 360.